Source notes

Documentary method

Notes

Writing from the margins of the record.

The margin

Notes is the editorial margin of Daedalus.

Brief writing on sources, documentary method, and the practical problems of assembling a record.

Areas of attention

01

Source commentary

Close attention to what a document contains, omits, and permits.

02

Documentary method

Observations on provenance, comparison, sequence, and evidentiary limits.

03

Material form

Notes on how records are organized, reproduced, and encountered as physical objects.